Wish you Happy International Yoga Days 2016

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What is quality content?

Columnist Patrick Stox takes a comprehensive look at what Google might consider to be "quality content" and adds his own thoughts and tips based on his experience in the SEO industry. We’ve all heard that content is king and that you need to write high-quality content, or now “10x content,”...

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Google Home Page Testing Gray Background

  Ruben Gomez spotted another test, this one is from Google, he posted about it on Twitterand called it material design for desktop. It looks like the card style design we reported about a few weeks ago. But Ruben explained it is also visible on the home page and...

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Google: Blocking US Users, Means Blocking GoogleBot

  GoogleBot typically crawls from the United States, not 100% of the time. In fact, Google recently began crawling on a limited basis from other countries but only to check on local-aware features. In any event, what if you have a web site that is not accessible for US users...

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Google Doesn't Filter Gold Stars Reviews From Specific Industries

  Joy Hawkins asked in a Local Search Forum thread if Google will filter the gold stars shown in the organic search results for local results for specific industries. She said she can't get the stars to come up for specific industries and she is wondering if Google filters...

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Bing News PubHub For News Submissions

  Bing announced you can now submit your news site, like this one, to Bing News at the new Bing News PubHub. When you go to Bing News PubHub, you can fill out the form as I screen shot below, to submit your news site to Bing. Here is a screen shot of the form: To...

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Apple App Store To Get Search Ads

  Apple is bringing search ads to their App Store. Apple announced it last night saying, "starting this summer, you'll be able to participate in the Search Ads beta and see the ads in action." In short, people search in the App Store and if you want to advertise your apps...

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Having Issues With Your Google Disavow File? Upload One Line At A Time

  Like it or not, many SEOs use the disavow backlinks feature within Google which launched in 2012 mostly based on webmaster feedback. But sometimes the disavow file can cause a headache for webmasters. When you have weird characters in your URLs, sometimes Google...

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Google's John Mueller On Flat (Not Growing) SEO Traffic

  I always find it interesting when a Googler responds to a specific SEO question with an audit like response. By that I mean, if someone complains about their SEO efforts and rankings in Google and Google responds with additional qualification questions, it makes you wonder - what...

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